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THE JAPANESE AND CHAUVINISM OF AMERICAN WORKERS

"Neue Zeit," 1913 (31, 2), pp. 110–112 (No. 30 June 1913)

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Worker chauvinism

ERWIN GUDDE: "A New Exclusionary Law Against the Japanese in the United States." (Dated: San Francisco, 21 May 1913).

This law, which prohibits Japanese from purchasing land (permitting them to lease only for 3 years), was signed by the governor on 19 May 1913 in defiance of Woodrow Wilson's insistence.

This is indeed "an exclusionary law of the worst sort" (410)—"a policy that is even worse than Prussian policy towards the Poles" (412).

And the workers in America are guilty of "chauvinism" (NB) (412). "The gentlemen of the 'American Federation of Labor' not only want to deprive the 'yellow' people of all rights, they want to expel them from the country altogether" (411).

This exclusionary law "proves to us that the population of California, and above all the working population, is harnessing itself to the chariot of American imperialists, who have long been preparing war with Japan. The Socialist Party also shows itself unequal to the task on this question" (411).

This law is "merely one link in a long chain of laws" (412)...

American workers and their chauvinism towards the Japanese

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Workers backing imperialists...

"The Socialist Party" likewise [fails]

[The second section appears to be a separate editorial note regarding a missing passage in Lenin's text, preserved as in the original.]